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This week we are pleased to publish an essay by sculptor and blogger John Powers about the relationship of death, sculpture, and modernity. The essay, titled “Art, Not Suicide,” wrestles with Rosalind Krauss and her influential essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” as a starting point and asks, “
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Brent Burket (aka Heart as Arena) has a report on artist Dread Scott’s “Money to Burn” performance in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday … it included a lighter, US currency, cops, and confused tourists …
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In a weeklong series, critic and journalist Tyler Green is exploring the attribution of some of Eadweard Muybridge’s images and the possibility that they were in fact from other photographers, such as Muybridge’s friend and rival Carleton Watkins.
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This November, a new exhibition that hopes to explore the artistic boundaries and terrain of the Ottoman Empire will open at Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Titled Blind Dates, the show is the brainchild of curators Defne Ayas and Neery Melkonian, and their goals are lofty as they set out to trace: “… ‘wha
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Rogue knitters … yes, knitters … encamp along the Berkeley-Oakland border to protest a public sculpture, inspired by a Gertrude Stein quote, they believe insults Oakland.
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If the Queens Museum of Art isn’t the most well-known museum, it certainly is one of the most resourceful as it seems to work wonders with the limited resources they have. Tomorrow (Wednesday, June 9) is QMA’s annual gala and we hope you will consider supporting one of the borough of Queens’s leadin
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There are many mysteries in 20th C. American art but none are more enduring than the question of the mysterious diner in Edward Hopper’s iconic painting “Nighthawks” (1942). Now, Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York [http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com] is promising to get to the bottom of it all.
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After a burst of national outrage over the Prescott School District’s request to “lighten” a mural [http://hyperallergic.com/6887/arizona-school-mural-controversy/] with a large Latino figure, the School District announced at a pro-mural protest last Saturday that they are ok with the current image
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Widely exhibited and praised, the work of the late Tobias Wong forced the design (not to mention contemporary art) world to reconsider art’s relationship to mass commerce and up-to-the-minute pop culture as well as face up to its own Ivory Tower insularity. Some of his objects will live on.
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The Associated Press has disseminated a story that props up its own interests in the Shepard Fairey Obama “Hope” copyright case. Some people are wondering if the news service should’ve filed a story with no real updates except that things are still going well for the AP.
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I had no idea renowned beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was an avid amateur photographer. A current exhibition [http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2010/ginsberg/index.shtm#] of his black and white snapshots are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and they are annotated by Gi
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Belgian conceptual artist Jef Geys has been commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit to create his latest project titled “Woodward Avenue” on the Detroit street of the same name. It will span almost 30 miles and incorporate local vegetation.